Fifa has given significant backing to goalline technology by promising to fund further experiments.

The 10 companies which had presented systems to Fifa last month failed to meet the criteria, raising fears that Saturday's meeting of the International Football Association Board, the game's law-making body, will not support further experiments.

But Fifa's secretary general, Jérôme Valcke, has said the world governing body will support new tests. "The decision is, do we extend the tests, which we at Fifa are ready to do and ready to pay for? Maybe we will do the next tests in England and in a stadium.

"If something is working then why not? [Fifa's president] Sepp Blatter was clear to the executive committee by saying if there is a system that's working we have to accept it."

The meeting of the IFAB at Celtic Manor in Wales will be presented with the results of the tests which took place at Fifa's headquarters in Switzerland.

The goalline system developed by British company Hawk-Eye was not one of those tested – its version needed a stadium environment for their cameras and Fifa has given assurances that it is still under consideration.

The IFAB is made up of the four British associations, which each have one vote, and Fifa, which has four. Any law change needs at least six votes in favour.

Blatter's decision to reopen experiments into goalline technology following Frank Lampard's disallowed goal in the World Cup looks to have marked a major shift in attitudes.

The Welsh and Northern Irish FAs, which until now had backed Fifa in opposing any technology, are now also leaning towards supporting more tests on goalline systems.

The 10 systems had to demonstrate 100% accuracy and that they could transmit the result to the referee within a second of a goal being scored.

Hawk-Eye remains confident its system would pass those tests – the firm is in the process of being taken over by a larger company and it will be keen for IFAB to give guarantees that it at least accepts the principle of goalline technology.

Uefa's president, Michel Platini, will be at Celtic Manor to argue his case for extra officials behind each deadball line instead of technology, and the IFAB is likely to allow Uefa to continue with the five-man match official system at next year's European Championship finals in Poland and Ukraine.